Translator's Note 



peared in the Fortnightly Review; and Chap- 

 ter XIV., The Cabbage Caterpillar, the last 

 essay but one from the author's pen, written, 

 I believe, within two or three years of his 

 death, was first printed In the Century Maga- 

 zine, some time before its publication in the 

 original. It does not form part of the Sou- 

 venirs entomologiques. The remaining es- 

 says are new in their English guise. 



Once more I wish to record my gratitude 

 to Miss Frances Rodwell for the faithful as- 

 sistance which she has lent me in the prepara- 

 tion of this volume, as in that of all the earlier 

 volumes of the series. 



Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. 

 Chelsea, 1916. 



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